Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture : Finding Augusta : Habits of Mobility and Governance in the Digital Era

Introduction : bodies, mobilities, technologies -- Making tracks : Augusta app would like to use your location -- In hand and on the go : design, neuroscience, and habits of perception handheld -- "Location, location, location" : placing persons, accessing information, and expressing self -- Secured mobilities : how to think about populations -- Conclusion : an "aesthetics of existence," or habit-ing differently.;Finding Augusta breaks new ground, revising how media studies interpret the relationship between our bodies and technology. This is a challenging exploration of how, for both good and ill, the sudden ubiquity of mobile devices, GPS systems, haptic technologies, and other forms of media alter individuals' experience of their bodies and shape the social collective. The author succeeds in problematizing the most salient fact of contemporary mobile media technologies, namely, that they have become, like highways and plumbing, an infrastructure that regulates habit.